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XOV. 19-20 -^TT^rivas actually true that peo . to ^ork we'd still be plow a ticks and carrying our har our backs. HOW'S THIS? CATARRH MEDICINE wiH of n** 3"""* ^ st*n Catar^i " ^ Deafness caused oy CATARRH MEDICINE co Re^vf-fth*" Ointment which Qui^hi. Reheyes the catarrhal indammation, am Medicine, a Tonic, whi- i through ^e Blood on tiie Mucous Soid by druggists for ove^- It) Yea^s h. J Cheney & Co., Toledo. O. Concrete Improvements on the Hog Farm bnng definite returns in healthier, larger hogs, in more pork with less feed, and in greater profits from hog raising. Wallowing pools, feeding Hoots, drinking troughs, hog houses and such improvements of hard, dean, sanitary Concrete do not absorb filth and harbor disease germs. The cost of Concrete construction is small when the many advantages are fairly considered. Upkeep cost is practically nothing. Satisfaction and service are greater than with any other building material. Any farmer can make Concrete Improvements himself which, if done by outside help, would cost many times the small amount he will spend for materials. Any Security Cement dealer will give you information and furnish Free Blue Prints showing how to build ]pest at least cost. kcMRKYj C-sa! .r" d*. !S{fUC!TY CEMEMT fE sgcuRin? SECMB!TY MAKES GOOD CONCRETE BE sure yen get good We handle POCAHONTAS SPLiNT BLUE STAR ANTHRACITE a!! of best grades, clean burning and dean in preparation. WE GIVE FNE SERWCE, Oxfmd, X. <L . Lumber Building Material Coal Looking at the new touring car from the side, you are at once favorably impressed with the eSect of longer, more graceful hues secured by enlarging the cowl and raising the radiator Slanting windshield and one-man top lend material aid in giving the entire car a lower, more stylish appearance. An apron connecting the radiator with the fender skirts is also a decided improvement. a A comfort feature much appreciated by owners, is the additional eg room provided by the enlargement of the cowL Allow us to show you the entire line of new Ford cars now on display tn our show room. Fbese curs cun be obtained t&rowgb ibe Ford Weebfy PwrcAuse P/un. CRENSHAW'S FARMERS ! (E. C. Branson, Kalunborg, Den-j mark, August 25, 1923.) Do the farmers of Denmark ever! Aork any? If they do I have not! } oeen able to catch them at it. In a ! I single afternoon, in a singie ^nd-j ^rape anywhere in central and south; Cermay you tan see more people at' " ork in the fields than I have seen in < the fields of Denmark in six weeks! of travel from one end of the state! to the other. "What's the answer?" j I fired this question the other day} at an English-speaking Dane, a uni-t versify man, the son of a- farmer who] is a seasoned member of the Danish ! parliament. "My answer would be," said he, "that the Dane is lazy by nature. He never sweats his back if he can get there by sweating his brain. He nev- ] er does anything himself that he can get a farm animal or a labor-saving machine or a cooperative society to do for him. And then, three-fourths i of his acreage is in grain, hay and forage crops. These crops are all pitched with seeding machines and cut with reapers and mowers. He pickets his farm animals in the fields j and they harvest his forage crops for him during seven or eight months of the year. His grain crops are threshed out by his own or the com munity-owned threshing machine. He is a livestock farmer on a machine basis, which means minimum work ers and minimum hours in the fields. As for marketing his products and getting the money into his pocket, he hardly bothers with it at all; the cooperative societies attend to that. ; He works, the whole family works, in and around the buildings of the farm square, but you do not see them from a car window. Mainly it is work with the farm animals that is a very intimate way are members of the family circle. You'll see inore^ farm workers in the fields during^ the grain harvest, especially during the season for getting the sugar-beets j housed. Except among the little, landers, you will rarely ever see a j girl or woman doing field-work in ! Denmark and most of these you'll j see during the season of root-crop ; harvesting." Organized AgTicultm^. The Danish farmers, in a word, j have organized their agriculture as thoroughly ag capitalists have any where organized manufacture; fori more thoroughly in fact, for they not ] only produce their own raw ma- j terials .but in their cooperative plants j they put these into finished forms for final consumption, market them through their own sales agencies, and base their distribution business on their own credit institutions. Not perfectly in this last detail of farm business, but a cooperative farm bank whose capital increases from three hundred thousand to three million; dollars In eight years and whose busi- ! ness In loans and discounts amount! to thirty million dollars a year is fast moving into adequate proportions. The cooperating farmers of Denmark have better boxed the compass of business relationships than any man ufacturing corporation I know any thing about unless it be the Standard j Oil Company or the United States} Steel Corporation. Damn Classification. Who are these Danish farmers? U have already had a. word to say about j their origin and rise out of poverty into wealth and influence in one hun- j dred and thirty-five years. Today 1: am writing sketchi'y about the eco-j nomic-social farm classes. Aside from the twelve hundred thousand townspeople who are tled-in with the cooperative farm organizations in manufacture and sale of farm pro ducts, the dirt farmers and their families number one million two hun dred thousand souls. They fall into five fairly distinct classes: first the Bi gEstate owners, second the Pro prietors, third the Gaardmaend or middle-class farmers, fourth the Hus maend or little landers .and fifth the Tenants and Leaseholders. * The Big Estate. 1. The four hundred and nineteen Big Estate, owners hold properties of six hundred acres or more each. The aaverge is 1,088 acres and the total 445,000 acres. They cannot be left out of account in any proper study of this little country of small-scale farmers. Most of them are counts and barons, the remains of an eigh teenth century aristocracy. The Proprietors. 2. -The Proprietors stand next to the Big Estate owners in the pos session of farm properties\and they eniov the social distinction that in afiably attaches to the ownership of broad acres. They are a fringe of the old-time landed adistocfacy of Denmark. Danmark's Backbone. 3. The Gaardmaend, or middle clasg farmers, are the backbone of Denmark, not of agriculture alone but of business in general. I am quoting the chief of the English de partment of the largest bank in Co penhagen. They are forty-five per cent of all the farmers and they own nearly .exactly two-thirds of all the land. They are 91,110 in number and their holdings total 6,320,000 acres. ) , The Little Landers, j 4. The Husmaend or little farmers } at the bottom of the economic gcaie are more than half of all the Danish farmers but they own less than fif- i teen per cent of all the land. Their} ; holdings range from one to twenty-! j five acrs, the average size of their j farms is twelve and one-half acres,' )and the total is 1.360,000 acres in ^ j round numbers. They would have a! j dog's chance on little farms of this j ; size if it were not for the magic of i pigs and poultry, dairy cows and co- j I operation—these four, and the great-! } est of these is cooperation. j A Handful Of Temmts. i 5. The Tenants and Leaseholders j of Denmark deserve more space than! I am able to give them in closing} this over-long letter. They are very} }few in number—only 10,758 against 117,000 in North Carolina. They are tess than five percent of all the farm ' ers, against our forty-five percent, i The farm tenants in the American sense of the teim, the one-year ten ants subjct to change at he will of the landlord, are only 4,545 in all Denmark.^ The holders of life-leases !are 2,207. They were 8,404 in 1901. Which means that in eighteen years 6.197 life-leaseholders bought the farms and they and their ancestors held under perpetual lease, the own-^ ers being forced to seli under recent laws of parliament. The long-term lease-holders are 4,008, their leases running as a rule sis:, seven, or eight years according to the rotation sys tem they pracice. Mainly hey are operating the large farm unitg of the } proprietors and big estate owners, and their number varies very little rom year to year. Leaseholders and tenants will exist as long as large es tates exist in Denmark, that ig to say for only a few more years, for the fixed policy of the state is small farms cultivated by owners. Under recent laws idle landlords living in luxury on rents will pass! into his- j tory in a hurry. DUNK SPHAYS POISON; KILLS MOSQUITO PESTS San Antonio, Texas. Nov. 13.—A successful experiment in warfare by airplane on malaria-spreading mos } quitos is reported by Lieutenant R. ; T. Cronau, U. S. A. air service. While flying Lieutenant Cronau sprayed paris green over the surface of small lakes and marshes near Mounds. I Results were so excellent, he re ! ported, that the experiment develop ' ed nearly 100 per cent efficincy in , mosquito destruction. —A detour is the longest distance between two driven points. "CASCARETS" TONiGHT FOR LiVER, BOWELS Get a 10c Box if Constipated. Sick. Bilious, or Headachy. "They Work While You Sleep. .. When you feel sick; dizzy, upset, when your head is dull or aching, or your stomach is sour or gassy, just take one or two pleasant "Cascar ets" to relieve constipation and bil iousness. No griping—nicest cathar tic-laxative on earth for Men, Wom en and Children. 10c boxes, also 25 and 50c sizes—any drug store. (2) NOW IS THE TIME TO HAVE YOUR Automobile Tops Recovered NEW CURTAINS, CUSHIONS, RUGS HOOD AND RADIATOR COVERS. WE HAVE JUST ADDED NEW FORCE TO OUR TRIMMING DEPARTMENT AND ARE NOW PREPARED TO GIVE YOU PROMPT SERVICE BY THE BEST MECHANICS IN THE STATE. 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Giving rapid,^dependable hauling ser vice at low initial cost, and at the lowest possible expense for operation and upkeep, it pays the highest divid ends on the investment of any economy tor wmcti the Ford product is notable eveiy^here. F&Mf trMdb MM 00/<2!MfJ fArOKgA For J PwrcAj!? Pf<aM. motor transportation equipment available to die business world. CRENSHAWS Ford Sales And Service
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